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...business; Raymond Massey recited from Abe Lincoln in Illinois; Bob Benchley skitted through a shopping trip; Joe Cook imitated his three Hawaiians; Novelist Carl Carmer (The Hudson, Listen for a Lonesome Drum), countrywide correspondent for Pursuit of Happiness, reported the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Hartford Courant, the latest folklore on rattlesnakes...
...Although it may be depriving its readers of a bit of information which they have been accustomed to find in the press, the Courant is now omitting to mention in its obituary columns the nature of the disease or ailment to which death was attributable. . . . If we can make through the policy here announced a small contribution to the peace of mind of those who foster gloomy predictions we shall be well satisfied...
This unique journalistic backward step was news last week because it was taken by the 175-year-old Hartford Courant, which has the longest continuous publishing history of any paper in the U. S. The Courant has not missed an issue since Thomas Green pulled its first from a hand press on October 29, 1764. It printed the Declaration of Independence as news, numbered George Washington among the subscribers who read the lively, eye-witness war correspondence of Israel Putnam. Republican since the Connecticut branch of the party was founded in its editorial rooms by Publisher Joseph R. Hawley...
...Courant is still published within a stone's throw of Founder Green's hand press. It is now ruled in its obituary policy and otherwise by sober, stamp-collecting Publisher Henry H. Conland, who joined the paper as an office boy 39 years ago, and Editor Maurice S. Sherman, a good-natured fisherman whose editorial style is compared with that of the Courant's most famed leader writer, Mark Twain's crony, Charles Dudley Warner. Together they have helped restore respectability to the "Old Lady of State Street," who lost it briefly after the World...
...much of American education to ask it ... to produce leaders from a set of average humans. This may indeed be calling for miracles, but certainly it is not too much to ask education to try to help as many youths as possible to a "normal" satisfactory life. The Hartford Courant...